Check out the current Metropole Playlist, featuring artists who will be appearing in Vienna this month.
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- 1. Avishai Cohen – ‘About A Tree (Ofyn Weg Steyt a Boym)’
Sounds like: Peacefully ploughing through the winter traffic, fuelled by dreams of home.
Details: Konzerthaus, December 2nd. - 2. Everything Everything – ‘Distant Past’
Sounds like: Coping with a terrible, paradoxical nostalgia for something you’ve never experienced by raving unto the light fantastic. Do ‘The Swim’! Now do the ‘Mashed Potatoes’!
Details: Flex, December 4th - 3. Chad Valley – ‘Shell Suite’
Sounds like: Finally looking at those photographs from your summer holiday and shuddering at your own happy smiling face as you poke at a rock pool with a stick.
Details: Grelle Forelle, December 5th. - 4. Ducktails – ‘Killin’ The Vibe’
Sounds like: Rudely interrupting a new acquaintance’s story about their travels through the South Pacific by shouting about cultural imperialism; then repeatedly cringing with embarrassment as the bad vibes continue long into the night.
Details: Chelsea, December 5th. - 5. Nightwish – ‘Nemo’
Sounds like: Hearing your middle-aged goth neighbor singing in the shower every morning; realising that their mock-operatic affectations probably represent the true nadir of western civilization, cruelly amplified by the bathroom acoustics.
Details: Wiener Stadthalle, December 8th. - 6. Radian/Dorian Concept/Fennesz – ‘Shisheido’
Sounds like: Thinking for a moment that beauty can save us because it quickens the pulse: making life more vivid, animated, worth living, more… alive.
Details: ORF RadioKulturHaus, December 10th - 7. Count Basic – ‘Speechless (Kruder & Dorfmeister remix)’
Sounds like: Treating a trip on the subway like a scene from a spy thriller; curling up in a corner seat, peeking from beneath a magazine at all the suspicious characters, before realising with a shock that it’s you who looks shadiest of all.
Details: Gasometer, December 11th - 8. Tower of Power – ‘Soul With A Capital ‘S’’
Sounds like: Maintaining a sense of profound, unironic dignity as you spend most of a Christmas Party dancing with your younger cousin, despite the absurd height difference.
Details: Ottakringer Brauerei, Szene, December 13th - 9. Big Daddy Kane – ‘Ain’t No Half-Steppin’’
Sounds like: Admiring your new oh-so-retro hairdo, fully realizing that the shaved bits will start to look appallingly puffy alarmingly quickly.
Details: WUK, December 16th
- 1. Avishai Cohen – ‘About A Tree (Ofyn Weg Steyt a Boym)’
Sounds like: Peacefully ploughing through the winter traffic, fuelled by dreams of home.
Sounds like: Coping with a terrible, paradoxical nostalgia for something you’ve never experienced by raving unto the light fantastic. Do ‘The Swim’! Now do the ‘Mashed Potatoes’!
Sounds like: Finally looking at those photographs from your summer holiday and shuddering at your own happy smiling face as you poke at a rock pool with a stick.
Sounds like: Rudely interrupting a new acquaintance’s story about their travels through the South Pacific by shouting about cultural imperialism; then repeatedly cringing with embarrassment as the bad vibes continue long into the night.
Sounds like: Hearing your middle-aged goth neighbor singing in the shower every morning; realising that their mock-operatic affectations probably represent the true nadir of western civilization, cruelly amplified by the bathroom acoustics.
Sounds like: Thinking for a moment that beauty can save us because it quickens the pulse: making life more vivid, animated, worth living, more… alive.
Sounds like: Treating a trip on the subway like a scene from a spy thriller; curling up in a corner seat, peeking from beneath a magazine at all the suspicious characters, before realising with a shock that it’s you who looks shadiest of all.
Sounds like: Maintaining a sense of profound, unironic dignity as you spend most of a Christmas Party dancing with your younger cousin, despite the absurd height difference.
Sounds like: Admiring your new oh-so-retro hairdo, fully realizing that the shaved bits will start to look appallingly puffy alarmingly quickly.
- 10. Peaches – ‘Fuck the Pain Away’
Sounds like: Acting like an obnoxious town-crier, largely ignored but declaring to all who will listen that the only way to secure a truly human revolution is through sexual liberation.
Details: Ottakringer Brauerei, December 19th.
Sounds like: Acting like an obnoxious town-crier, largely ignored but declaring to all who will listen that the only way to secure a truly human revolution is through sexual liberation.
